Description
Political texts by the Alfaguara Novel Prize winner that put Colombia on the face of actuality.
Violence, power games, and post-truth in a country in search of peace.
"Where power is at stake, there will be lies." Since peace negotiations with the FARC were announced in Colombia, Juan Gabriel Vásquez hasn't stopped addressing this process that has given his country so much hope--and has polarized it just as much. This book gathers everything Vásquez has written about the matter: his opinion pieces in the world media and conversations with former President Juan Manuel Santos, with the head of the Colombian negotiating team in Havana, Humberto de la Calle, and with sculptor Doris Salcedo. The Peace Discord not only documents the events of the past ten years, but prompts a reflection on the lies and violence that have degraded national fellowship. This book includes an unpublished prologue and epilogue, in which Vásquez attempts to answer two questions: in the times of post-truth, how can someone practice opinion journalism? And in a post-conflict nation, how do you retell the past? Through his journalism, Vásquez defended the negotiations before, same as he defends the accords now, but always with a lucid mind, far from any sectarism, from a position neither ideological nor solely political, but humanitarian and ethical.
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9788420463162
ISBN10: 8420463167
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World | Caribbean & Latin American
- History | Latin America | South America
- Political Science | Peace
About the Author
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) es autor de las colecciones de relatos Los amantes de Todos los Santos y Canciones para el incendio (Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana) y de las novelas Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara, Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Las reputaciones (Premio Real Academia Española, Premio Literario Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Prémio Casa da América Latina de Lisboa), La forma de las ruinas (Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa), Volver la vista atrás (Premio Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa) y Los desacuerdos de paz. Vásquez ha publicado también dos recopilaciones de ensayos literarios El arte de la distorsión y Viajes con un mapa en blanco, y una breve biografía de Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. Ha traducido obras de Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo y E. M. Forster, entre otros. Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar. En 2012 ganó en París el Prix Roger Caillois por el conjunto de su obra. En 2016 fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República Francesa, y en 2018 recibió la Orden de Isabel la Católica. Sus libros se publican en treinta lenguas. Es columnista del periódico El País.